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The Impact of Board of Directors’ Characteristics on the Financial Performance of the Banking Sector in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: The Moderating Role of Bank Size

Journal of Risk and Financial Management
This study investigates the impact of corporate governance characteristics on bank financial performance in Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The board characteristics include board size, board independence, board gender diversity, and CEO duality (CEO
Z. Abiad, Rebecca Abraham, Hani El-Chaarani, Ruaa Binsaddig   +3 more
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Board size, social trust, and corporate risk taking: Evidence from China

Managerial and Decision Economics, 2019
This paper examines the relationship between board size and corporate risk taking, as well as the moderating effects of regional‐level social trust. Results show that larger boards have greater difficulty in achieving consensus on extreme decisions and ...
K. Su, Heng Liu, Han Zhang
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‘Winning boards’ get board size right in bylaws

Board & Administrator for Administrators Only, 2016
In the “10 Things Every Board Member Needs to Know” series from the First Nonprofit Foundation, consultant Terrie Temkin (Miami, Fla.) contributed “A Winning Board: Steps That Bring Out the Best,” where she states that board size is a key matter to get right in the organization's bylaws.
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Board Size and Corporate Failure

1999
We discussed earlier whether it was possible — with our current state of knowledge — to identify the major determinants of corporate performance. In particular, the following question is often posed: ‘Given two companies belonging to the same industrial sector and operating in the same environment, what makes one more successful than the other?’ The ...
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Access, Common Agency, and Board Size

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
We study the impact of the size of a firm's board of directors on managerial incentives. We present a model where a risk-averse agent (the top management team) performs multiple tasks for a firm that is controlled by multiple principals (the board of directors) who differ in the relative value they place on each task.
Rajesh K. Aggarwal, Dhananjay Nanda
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Panel-sized integrated module board manufacturing

First International IEEE Conference on Polymers and Adhesives in Microelectronics and Photonics. Incorporating POLY, PEP & Adhesives in Electronics. Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8592), 2002
A panel-sized fabrication process for integrated module boards (IMB) is introduced. The IMB technology enables very high density solderless integration of active and passive components inside rigid or flexible organic substrates. With these interconnection structures signal distances are minimized and high performance electrical Cu-to-Cu or Cu-to-Ni/Au
T.F. Waris, R. Tuominen, J.K. Kivilahti
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Board Size, Firm Risk and Equity Discount

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
AbstractPrior literature documents that larger boards pursue conservative investment policies and that their decision outcomes are moderate, which promote an environment of risk aversion. I argue that this risk aversion hurts equity holders when firms hold a larger amount of long‐term debt.
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SSVEP by checkerboard related to grid size and board size

2015 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2015
The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is used for input signals of brain computer interfaces (BCIs). There are two types of stimulus for SSVEP. One is flushing visual stimuli and the other is flipping checker board patterns. We have been studying SSVEPs with checker board patterns.
Arao Funase, Kenya Wakita, Akitoshi Itai, Ichi Takumi   +3 more
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South East Asian Corporate Board Size

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
There are few papers that analyse the determinants of South East Asian firm board size, though there is a literature focusing on the impact of board characteristics on firm value. This paper adds to this former literature, focusing on the determinants of board size for firms listed in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and ...
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Board size and firm risk-taking

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2011
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance of board size and firm’s risky policy choices. I find that both the managerial pay to performance sensitivity (delta) and the managerial pay to firm risk sensitivity (vega) are negatively related to board size, suggesting that small boards give CEOs larger incentives and force them to bear ...
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